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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

CAMRA calls for help with beer-tie challenge

http://www.thepublican.com/story.asp?storycode=66046

Oh luvvy 'Colin Matlock' the forum sage. What do you know? CAMRA's position is solid. OFT failed utterly in their duty to the public by not regarding the impact of pubcos on retail prices. OFT received the supercomplaint, which raised serious issues about pubco activities, and went to the pubcos and asked: 'are you really as nasty as they say?'. The pubcos answered: 'Why no, we're not, we're really really worried about our tenants and are doing everything in our power to support them'. That was enough for OFT.

OFT need to be brought to heel and forced to perform their duties adequately. CAMRA did the right thing with the supercomplaint in the first place and are doing the right thing now in robustly questioning OFT's outrageously inadequate response. The pressure is on OFT to deal with this properly, acknowledge past failures to fully understand the pub industry and review the market thoroughly. For the first time ever there is a body that can be trusted to offer fair, honest and authoritative evidence which exposes the true and shocking workings of the pub sector against the thick varnish that BBPA and their pubco paymasters trowel over it.

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J Mark Dodds

I’m one of the Pub Persuaders, one of the Pub Professionals, one of the People who knows what’s going on – in PUBS that is - and this blog is about pubs, why they are so important to people and why they must be preserved, reinvigorated, enhanced and remade fit for purpose for the 21st century and beyond and how they must be made sustainable so that future generations can enjoy and learn from the rich seams of knowledge that can be found on everyone’s doorstep in every humble pub – until it’s closed forever – until it’s too late and people say ‘what happened to our pub? We really NEEDED that pub!’
I’m a publican, parent and photographer with a lot of food and drink experience in some of the busiest restaurants and clubs in Britain. Since long before 2008 (when I co-founded the Fair Pint Campaign) I’ve been a pro pubs, people and places person at the forefront of the national conversation about why pubs are closing… everywhere.
I love good pubs, my kids love good pubs, all my friends love good pubs – everyone loves good pubs and I’m determined to make sure good pubs remain part of everybody’s experience - of growing up in the UK and of visiting this country.